Her maxims and principles, if she could be said to have any of the latter, were not a little opposed to her husband's; but she died when Juliet was only five years old, and the child grew to be almost the companion of her father.
Hence it came that she heard much religious conversation, often partaking not a little of the character of discussion and even of dispute.

She thus became familiar with the forms of a religious belief as narrow as its partisans are numerous.

Her heart did not remain uninterested, but she was never in earnest sufficiently to discover what a thing of beggarly elements the system was, and how incapable of satisfying any childlike soul.

She never questioned the truth of what she heard, and became skilled in its idioms and arguments and forms of thought.

But the more familiar one becomes with any religious system, while yet the conscience and will are unawakened and obedience has not begun, the harder is it to enter into the kingdom of heaven.